Good news! Now patients will have access to THE best statin in the world, and not have to sacrifice to pay for it! Isn't that great news? Aren't patients our #1 priority? Fuck you AZ!
Wait wait wait wait ... you sound like Hilliary blaming Trump for having Russia steal her emails, but the top secret ones in her basement server, well, that doesn't matter, ask the FBI! She only deleted the 30,000 or so from the server because they were about her pantsuits and her daughter. The story line was that branded drugs cost more because the big pharma companies spend so much bringing new products to market. (Only they gave up, subcontracted and R&D effort after literally decades with no new products -- only XL, isomer, and combinations of existing products.) The shell of AZ that is left in a few years will be a generics / lawsuit outfit. Kind of like it is now.
Guys this must be your first rodeo if this is big surprise that drugs go generic..the company's not surprised...the lawsuit is just a classic delay tactic ...when you make several Billion $$ on one product you don't worry about a seven figure legal bill. Guess what comes next...a happy horse sh$t message from the company about pipeline and exciting stuff just around the corner...toss in few buzz words...lets say 'disrupter' and mention cancer (they'll say 'oncology') products in stage I,II III of development...you get my drift..nothing but blue skies and rainbows